On 04/03/2020 11:22, newshound wrote:
On 04/03/2020 11:05, Dave Liquorice wrote:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-51731757

"Rishi Sunak is set to announce in next week's budget that red diesel
- so-called because it is marked with a dye - will no longer attract
a lower fuel duty. It currently accounts for about 15% of total
diesel sales in the UK and costs the Treasury about £2.4bn a year in
revenue."

Red disel current attracts 11.1 p/l duty. "Road" diesel 57.7 p/l.

The reporting of these rumoured changes also hint that the freeze on
fuel duty may well end.

Think I might be filling the genset and paying a visit to the local
garage and to top up the jerry can and a 25 l drum or two...


Not just "**** Business", then. **** the farmers too.

It might encourage more of them to adopt the 'zero till'
method of growing crops, which reduces a lot of diesel usage.

Modern tractors have already reduced diesel usage because of
all the electronics and GPS that allow targetted application
of sprays and fertiliser rather than just splat every square
metre with the same amount.

Northern Ireland taxi drivers aren't going to like this either :-)